SO a government in London, we did not vote for, has sole power to decide if we can exercise our democratic mandate to end the UK Parliamentary Union.
After Mr Jack’s performance and exercise in self-justification at the Scottish Select Committee, it is clear any permission to test the considered will of the people of Scotland, via a referendum, will never be forthcoming from either the real Tories or their red substitute.
Like many other countries subsumed into the English Empire what is left to us to gain our freedom?
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The SNP hierarchy can talk about the democratic deficit until they are blue in the face, but the EnglishBritish establishment knows they are in the deep fiscal keech if Scotland departs. An economic collapse which will make Brexit look like child’s play. They will not let Scotland go unless it is prised from their death grip.
That only leaves organised civil disobedience as the democratic route has been denied to us.
Tell me I am wrong.
Peter Thomson
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